Read about the tip he left on an $800 dollar bill here.

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I do this with a smile on my face of course, and what really ticks me off is how little of a tip they always leave. They’re entire bill is comp’ed, and I’ll usually only get a 10 percent tip for my hours of work.

Frustrating to say the least that the people who own a restaurant chain do not even know the proper way to tip.

Submitted by: An Anonymous Server

Anyway, when she opened I picked up a few shifts.

So last night this table comes in. It was 3 women and one of them owned a website that basically features best restaurant, hotels, best things to do, etc in my city.

So the owner sat with them for a while. At the end, the owner comes up to me and says “Don’t give them a check”

So they ask me for a check and I told them there wasn’t one. The website lady said “Are you serious? Then you are getting a nice tip!”

So anyway, their check would have been like $64 and she gave me a $60 tip (she didnt know how much her bill was).

So a few minutes later the owner was like “How much did they give you” and I told her and she said “ok, I want part of that to help offset the check. I don’t want to have to eat that whole thing”

So she basically made me give up $30 of my $60 to pay for the check.

Besides being in complete shock, I am still trying to rationalize this by thinking- well, I probably wouldn’t have gotten a $60 tip if I had presented the table with a check. But even still, I think what she did was completely wrong….

Some are OK with it once I explain it, but others see it is an opportunity to give me attitude.

How is it my fault?!

Submitted by: Lisa

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Last night, I was at a table taking their order when a fellow server walked by with one of our new belly busting sized desserts.

My table then asked, “Oh, what is that?”

To which I replied, “That’s one of our new sundaes. It has ice cream, pineapple, powered sugar, etc.”

They then left me speechless with this question, “Well what kind of course would that be for, an appetizer?”

They were totally serious, and I couldn’t do anything but just walk away.

The sad thing is that eating ice cream before and after your meal is something that’s probably encouraged  in the world of chain restaurants.

A pre-dessert, dessert.

Here’s a few of their notable characteristics:

• We had free WiFi, so the the wife would bring her laptop in with her, and they would proceed to stay there ALL DAY while she studied on it.
• The man would go through about 4 milkshakes with every meal they had.
• They would eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at the restaurant.
• They were a very difficult table that made their server run, and were quick to blame anything that was wrong on them.
• They were quite rude on top of all of this.

The best part is that after eating 3 meals there, and going through about 3 different servers they would often only leave a $2 dollar tip when they finally payed their bill for the ENTIRE DAY.

Submitted by: An Anonymous Server

The only celebrity I ever waited on was Justin Guarini from American Idol fame, needless to say I was less than star struck. He ordered a hot tea and your basic breakfast and tipped around 20 percent, so at least he was “normal” tipper.

The weird thing was that he sang his entire order to me and talked into a microphone that wasn’t plugged in.

The Inn I worked at supposedly had a ton of big name people come through it, but I was never able to meet any of them first hand.

We actually had a room there called “The Harrison Ford Room”.

I had two young women come in and immediately start asking me questions before I could even greet them. The questions were about which drink is the strongest, which plate of food is the best deal, etc. Anytime I’d ask them if they wanted a drink they’d respond by asking another question about the menu. They finally ordered drinks and I quickly brought them over. Seconds later as I walked away they yelled for me to come back to them, because the drinks weren’t strong enough. This has happened before when customers try to get free drinks, so our store policy is that we take the drink away and order something new (and void the first drink). When I took the drinks away they were not happy, obviously thinking I’d let them finish their “weak” drinks and give them something else for free.

Then they ordered their food, and when I told them we were sold out of the potato salad, one of the women literally rolled her eyes at me and turned her head to face the wall, in disbelief. Moments later she turned back, shrugged, and switched her order to cornbread. The food, like always, came out quickly and the women were happy, except for one thing: that darned cornbread. They were made it wasn’t made to order. It would be lovely if we could make cornbread to order, but we unfortunately don’t have 45 minutes to bake cornbread for every customer who orders it (which is plentiful). They asked for my manager, who was smart enough not to give into their obvious demands to want something for free.

At the end of the night, they were the worst customers I had all week. They constantly waved me over or yelled for me loudly when I was in the area, even though I would walk by their table minutes earlier. I kept a happy face on trying to “kill them with kindness,” but at the end of the night, received $40 total for the $39.46 bill.

Submitted by: Heather

This particular waitress, we’ll call her Susy, was having an extremely busy night in the restaurant we both worked at, and her last table of the night was two older women who were both impossible to please.

When it came time for them to pay their bill, they left around 70 cents for a tip on a 40 dollar bill, and this Susy would not stand for.

She proceeded to follow them out of the restaurant, and just like every other Server in her position has dreamed of doing, actually threw the change back at them.

As a result she was suspended for a month, but in my mind it was totally worth it.